{"id":12024,"date":"2026-09-16T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:01:12","slug":"romanian-president-nicusor-dan-calls-for-consultations-with-parties-before-nominating-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12024","title":{"rendered":"Romanian president Nicu\u0219or Dan calls for consultations with parties before nominating new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania has been without a full government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/society\/ilie-bolojan-government-falls-may-2026\">since early May<\/a>, when the Social Democratic Party (PSD) left the centrist government coalition and voted against the Liberal-led Bolojan government together with the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians party.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Dan said that there could be no further delay, while Ilie Bolojan issued an ultimatum calling on him to nominate a candidate. After the nomination, the designated PM is expected to negotiate with the parliamentary parties to form a majority.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s consultations will begin at 9 AM with the Social Democratic Party and will continue every 30 minutes with another party in this order: AUR, the National Liberal Party (PNL), Save Romania Union Party (USR), the Hungarian minority party UDMR, the national minorities group, and smaller parties.<\/p>\n<p>So far, PSD has indicated that it could support a government led by a technocrat or an independent, but only if it has ministers in the future cabinet, while PNL and USR have said they will support a government of \u201cgenuine technocrats\u201d only if the ministers \u201cwill not be connected to PSD offices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the names put forward for PM are PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu and PNL MEP Siegfried Muresan, each backed by their respective parties. USR also chose to support Muresan.<\/p>\n<p>Current finance minister Alexandru Nazare is also mentioned as a possible prime minister, especially after Nicu\u0219or Dan attended his wedding over the weekend and then said that he wanted it to be publicly known that he appreciated his work.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was a member of PNL, Nazare is now independent, having been brought by Bolojan from the National Bank to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>Consulting the parties is a mandatory step, provided for by the Constitution, before appointing a person, but the president skipped this procedure before appointing Adrian Ve\u0219tea in June. In the end, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/society\/romanias-government-crisis-deepens-after-parliament-rejects-vestea-cabinet\">Ve\u0219tea did not manage to obtain Parliament&#8217;s vote<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania has been without a full government since early May, when the Social Democratic Party (PSD) left the centrist government coalition and voted against the Liberal-led Bolojan government together with the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians party. Previously, Dan said that there could be no further delay, while Ilie Bolojan issued an ultimatum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}